What is actually real in Objective Reality? How do you know? Now, prove it's real!

"The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact." - KURT GÖDEL

"According to Peirce's doctrine of fallibilism, the conclusions of science are always tentative. The rationality of the scientific method does not depend on the certainty of its conclusions, but on its self-corrective character: by continued application of the method science can detect and correct its own mistakes, and thus eventually lead to the discovery of truth".

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"Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." - Alfred Korzybski

"Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence." - James Randi

"Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch." - Novalis

"Nullius in verba. Take no one's word for it." - Motto of the Royal Society

"I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS." - Richard Feynman

"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin." - Thomas Henry Huxley

“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.” Albert Einstein

"Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism - and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency." - Stephen Jay Gould

"Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work." - James Randi

Objective Reality is a Harsh Mistress ™ as Hansen, Mann, Jones, Gore, Pachauri, Strong, et. al. are Finding Out The Hard Way

“One of the key features of Hansen’s global warming theory is that the polar regions are supposed to warm much faster than the rest of the planet. The image below is from his classic 1984 paper, and shows that Antarctica is supposed to warm up 6C after a doubling of CO2. If the cooling trend which UAH shows continues, it will take Antarctica a very long time to warm up six degrees.” – [1]

There is very little difference between what Hansen is doing and the old time soothsayers. Sure Hansen has computers with which to ply his magical tricks of math and dead tree entrails are at the core of his “dire doomsday” climate predictions. It’s the same old confidence game just different means of deception.

When a “theory” (actually a hypothesis, well not even that as a hypothesis needs to have proper tests that would falsify it should the tests fail to validate the hypothesis) fails to “connect” with objective reality it’s no longer a theory and it’s repugnant to science call it that. At best it’s a failed hypothesis and more likely just another pile of steaming mind poop that needs to be shoveled into the dust bins of history, just like millions of other failed hypotheses in the meandering progression of hard science.

Objective Reality is a Harsh Mistress ™ and she is very unforgiving.

The current problem with so called climate science is that it’s not a hard science anymore. It’s gone limp with wild agenda driven speculations taken as if they are what is happening in objective reality without the hard science to back it up.

Sure they have instruments and gauges and satellites and what not that can record data so thus it seems like hard science. Unfortunately the instruments is where the tiny bit of hard science in climate science ends. It’s at the point after data collection that the hard goes limp and we end up with the wild agenda driven speculations jokingly and tragically called a “theory” as if it was true.

Objective Reality is a Harsh Mistress ™ as Hansen, Mann, Jones, et. al. are finding out the HARD way.

Keep up the work insisting that climate science become a hard science again with Publicly Open Source Analysis, Auditing and Verification Processes where anyone with the skills can Peer Review and Audit and Verify or Falsify it.

Part of what makes a hard science hard is the rigorous auditing and verification and testing against that harsh mistress of Objective Reality.

A hypothesis or theory is ultimately only a map of objective reality. We need to make sure that we have the best map possible for the climate of Earth in order to ensure or maximize the odds of the survival of our species. Geo-engineering terrorfroming our one Earth based on junk science is not going to achieve that. Hard science that is verified and then verified again hundreds of times is what is needed.

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